Many of the conflicts take place in the Kivu region near the Rwandan border. Many cobalt mines are located in this region. Cobalt is used for making batteries of, for example, phones and electric vehicles. Many of which go to Western countries.
It yet again comes to no surprise that wealth in other parts of the world come at the cost of the lives in the Global South. A just climate transition means giving authority back to the people of the Global South.
Today I kept thinking about the utter fucking waste the capitalist system is. In terms of natural resources but also in terms of human resources.
Like, tens of thousands of people are unemployed in this country and many of them can and will work in some form or another. They get harassed continually about finding a job and the have to fill their time doing shit temp jobs that pay very little, creating profit for someone else while barely getting by and falling into an endless cycle of unemployment.
And then there are millions of people in The West stuck in some shitty wage slave job just because it costs money to exist. And then I haven't even started about actual slaves in the third world who get exploited to the max.
Imagine how much we could do if we could all get along and if money wasn't the single most important thing in life.
I don't see anyone holding up signs celebrating those hostages. Hostages who Israel also refused to take back. And it's funny how nobody is talking about thousands of Palestinians who have been taken and jailed by Israel on bullshit charges.
Nobody is celebrating the hostages. It's just an emotional abuse card people pull up when Israel's genocidal tactics get pointed out. And then we suddenly feel bad for hostages. Thousands of dispalced, kidnapped and killed people on Palestinian side don't get the same treatment.
Apparently the guy who hit him is a Ukrainian national, who yelled anti-Russian things. Baudet is suspected to receive financial aid from Russia for his party.
One of our senior party figures will soon release a book called Mutiny about the Global South getting freed from the Western hegemony and how that's a GOOD thing. We had a discussion about it today at my local action group and one of my comrades got sort of mad about it, asking how we could support orgs like BRICS when India for example is a right wing capitalist state. Luckily other comrades and myself were able to tell her how critical support works but I don't think she fully agrees.
The book will be translated in 10 different languages so I will see if I can share it here as well.
There must've been millions out on the street throughout the world this weekend alone. Support is overwhelming. If only it could bring us further that we are today.
Many of the conflicts take place in the Kivu region near the Rwandan border. Many cobalt mines are located in this region. Cobalt is used for making batteries of, for example, phones and electric vehicles. Many of which go to Western countries.
It yet again comes to no surprise that wealth in other parts of the world come at the cost of the lives in the Global South. A just climate transition means giving authority back to the people of the Global South.